Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Wind Loading, Cracking
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>We encountered far too many people messing around in the backcountry of Beaver Mountain Backside without any avalanche rescue gear. It's a great place for family fun, but we are being set up for tragedy. Granted, avalanche accidents are rare in the area, but avalanches do happen on the Backside, and there were a couple unintentionally triggered today! Please get the gear! Everyone in your party should have a beacon, a probe, and a shovel, and practice using it.</p>
Looked like folks were jumping off the cornice in the saddle and triggered a two foot deep and about 30' wide slab avalanche that only ran a little ways before stopping on the flats below the cornice. Judging by the tracks, it may have surprised somebody... Perhaps even a partial burial?
Snowpack
New snow was wind affected, heavy, and a bit inverted... Best conditions for skiing were found in lower angled terrain.